The winner of this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize, which hopes to “do for Asian writers what the Man Booker prize in London does for British, Irish and Commonwealth writers,” as judge Maya Jaggi wrote, will be unveiled Thursday evening in Hong Kong.

This year’s shortlist includes already-accomplished authors like Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk of Turkey — whose 1983 book “Silent House,” was released in English translation this year, thus making it eligible for the prize — and two authors whose books were also short listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for fiction, “The Garden of Evening Mists” by Tan Twan Eng of Malaysia and Indian poet Jeet Thayil’s debut novel, “Narcopolis.” Also making the shortlist are Musharraf Ali Farooqi of Pakistan’s “Between Clay and Dust” and “The Briefcase” by Japan’s Hiromi Kawakami.